drake

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.


hatch

en-verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

hatches (present singular third-person)
hatching (participle present)
hatched (participle past)
hatched (past)

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.

c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

(transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.


dun

Also, duns are dull and generally sober colored, whilst spinners are more brightly colored and shining and their wings are clear and transparent.

1966, John Harris, An Angler's Entomology, New York: Barnes, →OCLC, page 16:

(countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.

We have besides for this Month a little Dun call'd a whirling Dun (though it is not the whirling Dun indeed, which is one of the best Flies we have) and for this the dubbing must be of the bottom fur of a Squirrels tail and the wing of the grey feather of a Drake.

1676, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler. Being Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, London: Richard Marriott, and Henry Brome, →OCLC, March, page 59:

(countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.


dun

From Irish dún or Scottish Gaelic dùn, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“fortress”). Cognate with Welsh dinas (“city”). Doublet of town.

Smaller than the broch was the dun, another type of stone-built 'roundhouse'.

2013, T.J. Clarkson, The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN:

(archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.


dun

Fwhere's he come from, I dun'no'. French or English, I dun'no'. But a gintleman born, I know.

1901, Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way, New York and London: Harper, →OCLC:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.


dun

How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)

2009, Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook, Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, →ISBN:

Dun, dun! Dun, dun! As the music continues, the long shot of Griff's walk is broken down into repeating tight shots of his face, his legs, and his shifting point of view of Brockie.

2015, Lisa Dombrowski, The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You, page 113:

'DUN DUN DUN DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN! DUN DUN DUN DUNDUN-DUN-DUN... PRESSURE!' By 2.05 a.m. I am Very Awake Indeed and the catastrophising continues.

2016, Helen Russell, Leap Year: How small steps can make a giant difference:

Whenever that iconic riff in the score cued up—Dun dun ... dun dun ... dun dun dun dun dun-dun-dun-dun ... —Jack's heart would race, and she'd feel the fear on her skin.

2020, Spencer Hamilton, The Fear: A Pandemic Horror Novel:

Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.


mayfly

From May + fly. Compare Saterland Frisian Moaifljooge (“blowfly”).

cog

While some animals take months to reproduce, mayfly need just one perfect day.

[A] silver fish clooped a lazy arc downstream, not really caring that the mayfly were out of reach; […]

1986, Mary Brown, “The Gathering: One; The Unicorn and the Prince”, in The Unlikely Ones (Pigs Don’t Fly; 1), London: Century, →ISBN, page 5:

Adult mayflies have large compound eyes and most have two pairs of wings.[…]Mayfly nymphs are distinguished by their three tails (two cerci and a terminal filament) and the set of gills on each side of their abdomen.

2002, John Gooderham, Edward Tsyrlin, The Waterbug Book, page 132:

Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers.

2005, Terry Hellekson, Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art, page 213:

Stoneflies have negligible consumptive (thin solid line) and behavioral effects (thin dashed line) on mayfly abundance. Consumption by trout decreases the abundance of mayflies (solid line), but trout suppress mayfly emigration (drift) and thereby increase their abundance (thick dashed line).

2010, Barbara L. Peckarsky, J. David Allan, Angus R. McIntosh, Brad W. Taylor, “Chapter 9: Understanding the Role of Predation in Open Systems”, in Ian Billick, Mary V. Price, editors, The Ecology of Place, page 195:

Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.


leathery jacket

en-noun

leathery jacket (plural leathery jackets)

(Geordie) The grub of the mayfly and similar insects.


fishfly

Any insect in the corydalid subfamily Chauliodinae. Unlike most dobsonflies (subfamily Corydalinae) they don't have the enlarged mandibles typical (at least in the males) of that subfamily.


dayfly

From day + fly, since the adults typically live only for a day.


ephemeran

(zoology) Any mayfly of the genus Ephemera


baetid

Any member of the family Baetidae of mayflies.


caenid

(entomology) Any mayfly in the family Caenidae.


ephemerellid

Any mayfly in the family Ephemerellidae.


ephemerid

From translingual Ephemeridae, from New Latin ephemerus, from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros), the more common form of ἐφημέριος (ephēmérios, “of, for, or during the day, living or lasting but for a day, short-lived, temporary”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).

I had flown in a helicopter with Javits and Bobby Kennedy. I was skirring around New York like an ephemerid, my jacket lined with jolly psychedelic green.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 51:


heptageniid

(entomology) Any mayfly in the family Heptageniidae.


leptohyphid

(entomology) Any mayfly in the family Leptohyphidae.


leptophlebiid

(entomology) Any mayfly in the family Leptophlebiidae.


ephemeropteran

All these habitats are species poor: aside from amphipod fauna, assellote isopods, trichopteran, plecopteran and ephemeropteran larvae, erpobdelid leeches and salamander larvae were also found, but no fishes were observed.

2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, the mayflies.


Canadian soldier

Canadian soldier (plural Canadian soldiers)


eastern green drake

eastern green drake (plural eastern green drakes)

Ephemera guttulata, a species of mayfly.


lake fly

Any of various non-biting midges of the family Chironomidae, chironomids.


siphlonurid

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Siphlonuridae</i>

A Siphlonurid Mayfly, Siphlonurus phyllis

(Can we date this quote?), “Siphlonurid Mayflies”, in mt.gov, Monatana's Official State Website: